Actxp Utilis
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In the civil law. An equitable, or beneficial action.
1 Kaufm. Mack. Civ. Law, 268, note.
An action which lay by, or against a principal, on the contract of his agent.
Story on Agency, § 163.
The opposite of actio directa, (q. v.) An action ex delicto, which lay where the act of a party was not immediately, but only indirectly, or consequentially injurious to another.
Inst. 4. 3. 16.